Welcome to your AZ-900: Microsoft Azure FundamentalsCertification Provider:Â MicrosoftExam: Microsoft Azure FundamentalsExam Code: AZ-900Total Question: 56Updated On: 26 March2025 1. What should you proactively review and act on to avoid service interruptions, such as service retirements and breaking changes? health advisories service issues application insights Azure Monitor None 2. You need to be notified when there are new recommendations for reducing Azure costs. Which tool should you use? Azure Monitor Azure Service Health Azure Advisor Log Analytics None 3. Which feature in the Microsoft Purview governance portal should you use to manage access to data sources and datasets? Data Sharing Data Estate Insights Data Catalog Data Policy None 4. What can you use to ensure that users authenticate by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when they attempt to sign in from a specific location? single sign-on (SSO) Conditional Access Azure role-based access control (RBAC) administrative units None 5. Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters? Cloud service offerings have limited functionality. Services are only offered in a single geographic location. Network bandwidth is free. You are only billed for what you use. None 6. Which two scenarios are common billing use cases for resource tags? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. identifying lower cost regions resizing underutilized virtual machines associating costs with different environments categorizing costs by department 7. What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group? Azure Key Vault resource locks Azure role-based access control (RBAC) resource tags None 8. What provides recommendations to reduce the cost of Azure resources? Azure Advisor Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Service Health Azure Dashboard None 9. Which two protocols can be used to access Azure file shares? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Network File System (NFS) FTP HTTP Server Message Block (SMB) 10. [Answer choice] is the logical container used to combine and organize Azure resources. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) a resource group an Azure region a management group None 11. Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site? Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets availability zones region pairs availability sets None 12. Which cloud service model provides you with the most control over the hardware that runs applications? platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) None 13. Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images? Azure Table storage Azure Blob storage Azure Queue Storage Azure Disk Storage None 14. What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications? Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Logic Apps Azure Functions Azure Container Instances None 15. For which resource does Azure generate separate billing reports and invoices by default? subscriptions resource groups accounts management groups None 16. Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing? geo-distribution physical access to servers high availability elimination of horizontal scaling 17. Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources? an App Service a virtual machine a container a function None 18. Which Azure Blob storage service tier has the highest storage costs and the fastest access times for reading and writing data? Cool Archive Hot None 19. You need to create a custom solution that uses thresholds to trigger autoscaling functionality to scale an app up or down to meet user demand. What should you include in the solution? Azure Advisor Application insights Azure Monitor Azure Service Health None 20. Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding instances of resources such as virtual machines is called [answer choice]. high availability horizontal scaling vertical scaling disaster recovery None 21. Deploying and configuring cloud-based resources quickly as business requirements change is called [answer choice]. high availability scalability elasticity agility None 22. What can be applied to a resource to prevent accidental deletion? an Azure Reservation a resource tag a policy a resource lock None 23. What can you use to ensure that a development team can only create virtual machines of a certain size? Azure Blueprints Azure Policy Conditional Access Cloud Adoption Framework None 24. In which cloud service model is the customer responsible for managing the operating system? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) None 25. What can you use to sync identities from an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain to Microsoft Entra tenant? Azure Key Vault Conditional Access Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Microsoft Entra Connect None 26. What can you use to define the resources you want to provision in a declarative JSON format? Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Azure PowerShell Azure CLI Azure Repos None 27. Which two features are available by using Azure Cost Management + Billing? Generate historical reports and forecast future usage. Create and manage budgets. Provide discounted prices when you pay in advance. Estimate the total cost of ownership before resources are deployed. 28. You have an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each day. What should you do to minimize costs but preserve the associated hard disks and data? Delete the virtual machine. Implement Privileged Identity Management. Resize the virtual machine. Deallocate the virtual machine. None 29. Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model? The company has complete control over physical resources and security. Hardware must be purchased. Organizations only pay for what they use. Applications can be provisioned and deprovisioned quickly. 30. Which two services can you use to establish network connectivity between an on-premises network and Azure resources? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Azure Bastion Azure Firewall ExpressRoute Azure VPN Gateway None 31. Your organization is building a custom application. You need to focus on application development rather than configuration and management of servers. Which cloud service model should you use? platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) None 32. An example of [answer choice] is automatically scaling an application to ensure that the application has the resources needed to meet customer demands. high availability geo-distribution agility elasticity None 33. Which type of cloud service are virtual networks? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) None 34. What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change or delete the resource? Conditional Access a user-assigned managed identity a lock a tag None 35. You need to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an organization without changing the location of the resources. What should you use? resource groups resource tags administrative units subscriptions None 36. What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services that are critical to your organization? Azure Monitor Azure Advisor Log Analytics Azure Service Health None 37. [Answer choice] is the deployment and management service for Azure. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Azure API Management Microsoft Entra Azure Monitor None 38. What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment? Azure Functions Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Logic Apps Azure Container Instances None 39. What Microsoft Entra feature can you use to configure security authentication that requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in? Microsoft Entra Verified ID Microsoft Defender for Cloud multi-factor authentication (MFA) Azure Information Protection (AIP) None 40. Which two actions can be performed by using the graphical user interface (GUI) in the Azure portal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Change the availability zone of a virtual machine. Create new resources. Review a graphical view of all the services you are using. Repeatedly set up one or more resources and ensure that all the dependencies are created in the proper order. 41. Which two components are created in an Azure subscription? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. management groups Microsoft Entra user accounts resources resource groups 42. Which type of cloud service model is typically licensed through a monthly or annual subscription? software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) None 43. What is the customer responsible for in a software as a service (SaaS) model? virtual machines runtime data and access storage None 44. Which two actions can be performed by using Azure portal? Create Microsoft Entra user Create new resources. Change the availability zone of a virtual machine. Assign deny permission on a resource group 45. What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location? resource locks Azure Policy Microsoft Defender for Cloud resource groups None 46. Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions? management groups resource pair administrative units resource groups None 47. You need to recommend a solution for Azure virtual machine deployments. The solution must enforce company standards on the virtual machines. What should you include in the recommendation? Azure Blueprints Azure Lock Azure Cost Management Azure Policy None 48. You need to compare the costs of running an application in an on-premises datacenter with the costs of running the application in Azure. What should you use to assist you? Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator Azure Cost Management Azure Advisor Azure Pricing calculator None 49. Which two factors affect Azure costs? date and time of use resource usage availability zone selection resource location 50. What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers? colocation storage application development compute None 51. Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Azure SQL databases Azure subscriptions resource groups virtual machines 52. What can you use to create resources in Azure and includes a validation step to ensure all resources are created in a specific order based on dependencies, in parallel and idempotent? Azure PowerShell Azure REST API Azure CLI Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates None 53. Which two tools can you use to create a new Azure virtual machine from a mobile device that runs Android? PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell the Azure portal SSH Remote Desktop 54. Your organization plans to deploy several production virtual machines that will have consistent resource usage throughout the year. What can you use to minimize the costs of the virtual machines without reducing the functionality of the virtual machines? Azure Monitor alerts Azure Resources spending limits Azure Reservations None 55. Which cloud service model is used by Microsoft Office 365? platform as a service (PaaS) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) None 56. What can you use to connect Azure resources, such as Azure SQL databases, to an Azure virtual network? peering ExpressRoute service endpoints network security groups (NSGs) None Time's up